Scots or Scottisch Tongue Twisters
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| Original: | It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht. |
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| English: | It's a lovely moonlight night to-night. |
| Original: | Lang may your lum reek! |
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| English: | Long may your chimney smoke! |
| Original: | Mony a mickle maks a muckle. |
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| English: | Many a penny makes a pound. |
| Original: | Here's tae us! Wha's like us? Dammn few, an they're all deid. |
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| English: | Her's to us! Who's like us? Dammn few and they are all dead. |
| Original: | How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? |
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| English: | How much wood would a woodchuck chop, if a woodchuck could chop wood? |
| Original: | I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! |
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| English: | I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! |
| Original: | Irish wristwatch, Swiss wristwatch |
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| English: | Irish wristwatch, Swiss wristwatch |
| Original: | The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us |
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| English: | The boiling sea calms down and therefore the boiling sea is enough for us |
| Original: | She sells seashells by the seashore |
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| English: | She sells seashells by the seashore |
| Original: | If a toad does what a toad does, does a toad do what a toad ought to do? |
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| English: | If a toad does what a toad does, does a toad do what a toad should do? |
| Original: | Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers |
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| English: | Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers |
| Original: | Red lorry, yellow lorry |
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| English: | Red truck, yellow truck |
| Original: | How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? |
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| English: | How can a clam fit into a clean cream can? |
| Original: | The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us |
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| English: | The boiling sea calms down and therefore the boiling sea is enough for us |